Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the twentieth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romanticism — the dream of the redemptive love that will bring heaven-on-earth , resolve all difference , end alienation — has in the twentieth century replaced religion as the opium of the people . |
| 2 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 3 | That is , I think , a somewhat tendentious description of the classic realist novel , and , in fact , writers like E. M. Forster , D. H. Lawrence , Ernest Hemingway , Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene have written fiction that answers to the twentieth century 's sense of moral and philosophical crisis without deviating violently from the conventions of classic realism . |
| 4 | As is apparent with the Henry V film 's cuts and remodelling of the Shakespeare play , however , desires within the twentieth century mean that aspects of the Renaissance which do not conform with current needs are rendered silent . |
| 5 | But then , as the new , more streamlined , machine slips into the twentieth century , moving smoothly and with a new confidence — and by now virtually everybody is along for the ride — it crashes catastrophically . |
| 6 | THE WEST Lancashire Light Railway , the passenger-carrying narrow gauge line at Hesketh Bank between Southport and Preston , moves into the twentieth century with the introduction of a telephone after a period of twenty-four years . |
| 7 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |